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Residential Projects

Client: Private owners and developers

ACP Architecture Ltd provides a personalised approach to individual clients and developers. Attention to specific project requirements coupled with a quality service has resulted in many repeat commissions and personal recommendations.
The practice is able to guide clients through the total procurement route from scheme design, Town Planning and Building Regulation Approvals, working drawings, contractor tenders, contract administration, monitoring works on site, and checking the quality of works prior to final hand over to the client.
A full or partial architectural service is available covering all residential properties from individual house designs/extensions, barn conversions, sheltered housing schemes and estate layouts. Advice is also available on listed and conservation area projects.
Residential client organisations include:
Abbeyfield Housing Association
Cambray Homes Limited
Cecil Estates
Craven Construction Limited
Fairburn Estates Limited
Hassall Homes Limited
Heantun Housing Association
Jelson Limited
N W Developments Ltd
Touchstone Housing Association
Stamford Homes

Commercial & Retail

Area 4S, Wolverhampton Science Park

Wolverhampton Science Park Technology Centre Phase III

Year: 2003

Value: £7.10 million

Client: Wolverhampton Science Park Ltd

The Science Park. New fully serviced lettable offices for IT related business, R&D workshops, and Creative Industries Centre. Total lettable area to be created is 45,000 sq ft on three floors with central feature entrance atrium and service core, which includes a coffee bar at the upper level. The project has been part-funded by Advantage West Midlands and the European Regional Development Fund. The Wolverhampton Science Park is an integral part of the Wolverhampton-Telford Technology Corridor.

A50 Shardlow Service Station, Derby

Year: 2000

Value: £5.0 million

Client: Grace Church Leisure

Trunk road services to east and west bound carriageways comprising petrol filling stations, roadside motorist shop and restaurant facilities, set in extensive landscaping. The westbound facilities include a 48 bedroom Travelodge, which will be operated by Welcome Break/Days Inn. The Lodge accommodation includes 40 standard bedrooms, 3 disabled bedrooms, 5 work zone rooms, together with a meeting room, reception and associated support facilities. Bedrooms are modular prefabricated units, produced under factory controlled conditions, transported to site, and erected as a two-storey block, integrated with the amenity facilities.

Wolverhampton Science Park Technology Centre

Year: 2000

Value: £2.63 million

Client: Wolverhampton Science Park Ltd

New accommodation block comprising 24,000 sq ft of lettable specialist serviced office and research laboratory space. The Phase II building is linked to the existing Phase I building by new feature circular entrance/foyer at ground floor with fully serviced hot desk "Work Style 2000" accommodation at first floor.

Community & Education

Queensbridge/Fox Hollies School, Birmingham

Year: 2003

Value: £4.7 million

Client: Birmingham City Council

Relocation of the Fox Hollies Special School to Queensbridge Secondary School. Works included new special needs wing for Fox Hollies School, a new shared dining hall and conversion of existing dining hall to form a new shared library classroom and administration facility.

Arden Primary School, Arden

Year: 2002

Value: £1.0 million

Client: Birmingham City Council

A new school wing replacing several temporary buildings, providing a series of high quality purpose built classrooms on two storeys. Accommodation comprises 8 classrooms, sanitary facilities and passenger lift. The integration of the new block into the existing building was achieved with minimum disruption to the operation of the school.

New Braidwood School/Hodge Hill School, Birmingham

Year: 2003

Value: £2.6 million

Client: Birmingham City Council

The new Braidwood School is a special needs school located within the grounds of Hodge Hill School. The new facilities include 10 quality classrooms, design and technology nucleus, library, audiology room, consulting room and staff /administration facilities. Proposals also include installation of a new passenger lift and refurbishment of art and food & technology classrooms within the existing Hodge Hill School. Plan layout is in the form of a two-storey facetted arc. The new school is physically linked to the existing school via ramped corridors at each level. The school is designed with a central spine corridor with high level clerestorey windows. Voids are provided at regular locations through the corridor floor to achieve a feeling of openness between floor levels and improve air circulation. All classrooms are provided with high level windows onto this corridor space.

The Drive School, Kindergarten

Year: 1998

Value: £0.7 million

Client: Tettenhall College

New Kindergarten and Day Nursery constructed within the grounds of Tettenhall College. The original Day Nursery was located off site. The building forms Phase 1 of new improved teaching facilities for the College. Phase 2 comprises the construction of a new Lower School which is to be physically attached to this purpose designed building.

Woodside Multi Use Centre, Telford

Year: 2005

Value: £3.8m

Client: Telford and Wrekin Borough Counc

Multi use centre providing the following community facilities:
Education, training, lifelong learning unit with purpose designed facilities for learning, training and basic skills development.
Community regeneration/social exclusion in the form of a local base for partnerships working with other agencies (Job Centre Plus, Connexions, Business Link, Shropshire Chamber, Local Authority) to relate local training, skills development and social enterprise to local employment needs and opportunities.
Nursery and Crèche providing important day care facilities for local families.
New health facilities to complement the existing adjacent medical centre.
Community development and youth provision in the form of conference, training, activity and function facilities for community and youth groups and for private use.
Retail unit to house the local pharmacy.
A cafe and training kitchen is included within the provideing a social venue centre users and the community as well as delivering skills training.

Sport & Leisure

Madejski Stadium Expansion Proposals

Value: £34 million

Client: Reading FC

Expansion of existing stadium to increase seated capacity from 25,000 to 38,000. The proposals include additional hospitality lounges and an exhibition hall. Detail planning permission was granted for the proposals in June 2007.

Hotel Extension & Casino, Wolverhampton Racecourse

Value: £23 million

Client: Arena Leisure Plc

The £23m redevelopment will include an expansion of the hotel from 54 to 170 bedrooms, the construction of a new conference, exhibition and banqueting suite, a new leisure facility including a swimming pool and the incorporation of a casino within the racecourse, creating the UK's first 'Racino'. The plans for the racecourse, which were resolved to be approved by the Council in July, are not to be called in by the Secretary of State.

Keepmoat Stadium, Doncaster

Year: 2007

Value: £32m

Client: Doncaster Metropolitan Borough

The new £32 million facility is the first of its kind in Doncaster to integrate sport and community facilities into a single high quality venue at one of Doncaster’s most prestigious locations. It is situated at Doncaster Lakeside, close to the lake edge and set within a 10-acre parkland setting for public use. The parkland has a natural amphitheatre especially created to attract outdoor summer events and was the most ideal choice for the borough’s flagship sports venue. The centrepiece of the complex is an iconic bowl all seated stadium with a allseated capacity of 15,000 and curved roof and roof mounted floodlights.
Doncaster’s new sports complex is a concept that integrates sport and community facilities The stadium complex is the new home for Doncaster Rovers Football Club, Doncaster Belles Ladies Football Club, Doncaster Lakers Rugby League Club and Doncaster Athletic Club.
Complementing the sporting activities are a number of educational and community uses. The current sport/education mix includes a five-a-side football centre; martial arts academy; conference facility; IT suite; and a health and fitness club.

Health & Fitness Club

Sir Jack Hayward Training Ground

Year: 2005

Value: £2.5 million

Client: Wolverhampton Wanderers FC

New Training Ground and Football Academy. The scheme is part of a larger proposal known as Compton Sports Initiative involving a partnership between the Football Club, The Local Authority and two local schools who share the site. The overall scheme involves improved sports facilities for football, cricket, badminton, basketball, netball and hockey.

Kassam Stadium, Oxford

Year: 2001

Value: £15.3 million

Client: Oxford United FC

New stadium with 15,000 all seated capacity. The design includes three single tier stands and a two tier main stand. Conference and banqueting facilities are provided within the main stand. The stadium capacity can be increased to 20,000 spectators should the corners be completed.

Training Barn, Reading

Year: 2003

Value: £0.5 million

Client: Reading FC

Covered playing surface for Reading FC Academy of Football Excellence for the coaching of students between the ages of 7 and 19. The playing surface comprises a 60 x 40 yd artificial pitch with a special 50mm thick proprietary carpet made from polypropylene fibre blend which is treated and tufted onto a unique porous backing. The carpet is laid on a shock absorbing infill made from graded silicon sand and ground rubber, which is laid direct onto a rolled sub-base of stone on compacted ground. The structure covering the pitch is a lightweight waterproof fabric stretched over an aluminium frame.

Madejski Millennium Hotel

Year: 2000

Value: £15.3 million

Client: J Madejski

Five star hotel, providing support accommodation to the Royal Berkshire Conference and Banqueting Centre which is part of the Madejski Stadium. In addition to 154 bedrooms the hotel includes brasserie, restaurant, health and fitness suite and pool and feature five-storey atrium lounge.

Madejski Stadium, Reading

Year: 1998

Value: £22 million

Client: Reading FC

New stadium with seated capacity of 25,000 spectators. The pitch is sunk below ground level by approximately 3m. Car parking for 1860 vehicles. The Royal Berkshire Conference and Banqueting Centre is located within the main stand. A five star hotel was added to the stadium following its completion to provide bed spaces for the Conference and Banqueting facilities.

Dunstall Racecourse, Wolverhampton

Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton

Year: 1993

Value: £14.5 million

Client: Wolverhampton Wanderers FC

Stadium re-development comprising construction of three new stands (Stan Cullis, Billy Wright and Jack Harris Stands), new pitch, conference and banqueting facilities, player changing rooms and club administration offices. Works were undertaken in three phases to allow the stadium to remain operational throughout the works.

Trinity Lounge, Aston Villa

Kits Mobile IT Training Unit

Year: 2003

Value: £50,000

Client: Kingswinford Industrial Training

Interior fit-out and external graphics for mobile IT training unit with eight workstations, group discussion area and kitchenette. KITS is a collaborative venture with Stourbridge College. The centre is a comprehensive logistics training specialist delivering IT training into the heart of industry and the community.

Sir Jacks Restaurant, Molineux Stadium

About ACP Architecture Limited

ACP Architecture Ltd (formerly Alan Cotterell Practice Ltd) trades under the name ACP Architects. The Practice are Chartered Architects and Project Managers with a reputation for producing quality and functional design solutions.

The Practice offers domestic and commercial clients a full architectural service for new build and refurbishment projects.

At the very beginning of the project the client's brief, programme and budget will be agreed.

Clients are professionally led through the entire procurement process from feasibility study, to preparation of detail designs, applications for Town Planning and Building Regulation approvals, to obtaining tenders for the building works and administration of the building contract on site.

In additional to the normal architectural role, services can be provided as follows: